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i prepared a simple supper but with great love i cooked that main meat of refined wheat durum semolina, traded as rotini an Italian pasta to go with beef, a grace from a Canadian cow grazed in prairie grass, spiced with herbs from the hunted tropics: ginger, garlic, turmeric, and coriander powdered, with red pepper powder and red pepper crushed, black pepper (also powdered), added to the onion chopped, fennel, fenugreek, and cumin (all seeds), and the magical mustard, adding leaves chopped: basil, chives and parsley, with garam masala, a Bharat special, sprinkled with hardly a pinch of salt before adding the slow-cooked African beans and Mexican sauce: chopped and crushed tomato, and boiled potato, after being sautéed in the US canola oil to enhance the taste of minerals and more already in my pan: folate, iron, niacin, riboflavin, and thiamine already mixed in carbohydrate, the main with Chinese additives: citric, soy, and seasonings unlisted; likewise the two sealed cans that curtailed my sprinkling salt for supper came with corn starch, sugar, more spices and blackstrap molasses, and a poetic muse

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